# Facebook adds option for Page owners to run paid for online events

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/08/18/facebook-adds-option-for-page-owners-to-run-paid-for-online-events/
- Published: 2020-08-18T08:29:08+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Facebook Page owners can now earn money from online events held on the platform.**

 

Facebook’s Fidji Simo, Vice President, Head of Facebook App, announced late last
week [in a post](https://about.fb.com/news/2020/08/paid-online-events/) that Page
owners can now create an online event, set a price, promote the event, collect payment
and host the event, all from the one place.

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At the moment Page owners can host these events on Facebook Live, and Facebook is
currently testing paid events with Messenger Rooms for smaller, more personal and
interactive gatherings.

 

The option to create live paid for events is available in 20 countries for now, 
including the UK. Page owners must comply with Facebook’s [partner monetisation policies](https://www.facebook.com/business/help/169845596919485?id=2520940424820218)
to run a paid for event.

 

To help smaller organisations and creators struggling with the impact of Covid-19,
Facebook has also stated that it will not collect any fees from paid online events
for at least the next year. For transactions on the web, and on Android in countries
where it has rolled out Facebook Pay, small businesses will keep 100% of the revenue
they generate from paid online events.

 

However, according to Simo, although it has asked Apple to reduce its 30% App Store
tax or allow Facebook Pay so far it has declined, so small organisations using iOS
will only be paid 70% of their revenue.

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